Andy Mees
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Could you not capture the Digibeta as HDV? Sorry, doesn’t answer your actual question, but just seems like a possible solution.
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the answer is “yes”
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yep the slug Generator is NTSC and can’t see any way of changing that. for a quick workaround, you could create your own slug using Generator > Matte > Color and make it a favourite.
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don’t reformat, just combine the clips in an “Anamorphic” timeline and scale, crop and reframe the 4:3 material as needed.
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Gotham
does the source flicker when you view it in FCP or only after you author the DVD?
is the logo animated or static?
check your scopes. make sure your colours are broadcast safe. try applying the Broadcast Safe filter set to “Conservative”
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where and how did you put together the media that is showing the problem?
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[Peterd] “I’m looking for a way to take some footage captured as standard 4:3 and simulate a anamophic squeeze on it. Basically I want ot do the opposite of setting the anamorphic setting in the item properties.
This problem has nothing to do with outputting to a 16:9 screen or anything. I was given footage for a project and some is anamoprhic and some is 4:3 letterboxed. I need all the footage to match on the final sequence in as unletterbox anamoprhic. Is there any way FCP can do this without sacrificing too much quality?”
Peter, its a damn weird request … to do what you seem to want to do, you would have to both distort (apect ratio: +33) and scale (133%) each clip, causing the top and bottom to be cropped and the remaining video to occupy the full 4:3 window (looking tall and thin), then export. on reimporting the footage, and applying the anamorphic flag, it will squish down and appear to be undistorted and 16:9.
But heres the thing, what you thing you want to do is not what you really should do. There is nothing to be gained by this except unnecessary loss of quality.
Do as advised above. Combine the 4:3 and anamorphic footage as is, in the anamophic timeline and scale the 4:3 clips to 133%, now you can reframe those clips as required and get on with the show.Cheers
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I’m not seeing any problem with that, I get exactly what I’d expect. what excatly is the problem you are having?